Back in Time: Unshackling From Love

Chapter 17

As Mikayla laughed, tears streamed down her face.

Images from her previous life of being beaten, cursed at, and tortured at the mental hospital flashed before her eyes.

In the flashback, the hefty caretaker had gripped her by the hair, forcefully pulling her away and causing her only bowl of plain soup to spill.

They would even forcefully pinch her mouth when she refused to take her medication, shoving handfuls of pills down her throat.

Mikayla always thought it was the mental hospital deliberately tormenting her to please

Jerome.

Little did she know, the demonic woman from the previous life was Kylie’s relative.

So, all the misery she endured in the mental hospital was orchestrated by Kylie.

Thinking about the abuse she suffered and the torment from stomach cancer, Mikayla wished she could immediately strangle Kylie.

Why did she have to be so cruel?

Jerome, who clearly loved Kylie so much, had even sent Mikayla to the mental hospital for the former’s good.

Why wouldn’t Kylie let her go? Why did she have to harm her?

Jerome looked at Mikayla on the floor.

Although she had suggested keeping the audio call on, he still worried that something might go wrong, so he followed her up.

Unexpectedly, he witnessed Mikayla attacking someone as soon as the elevator doors opened.

She lay slumped amidst a chaotic mess of fruits, her eyes vacant, her body seemingly devoid of strength.

Though her face showed a smile, tears flowed incessantly, as if she had suffered some painful and tragic ordeal, radiating endless hatred and resentment.

Strangely, Jerome’s heart didn’t fill with anger at her madness. Instead, a dull ache

serthed within him:

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considered going to help Mikayla when he heard

Kylie’s bleeding forehead and the red marks on her neck from Mikayla’s grip, Jerome instruct ed the woman who was standing there in a

the first ald kill.

Kylie in sitting down and

tugged at her arm. “Get up.”

utterly limp, and as he pulled at her arm,

suddenly felt a

up here to apologize? What’s with this madness again?” he asked, furrowing his

Mikayla heard his voice. Her eyes began to focus, and her body gradually regained strength.

a sense of

with Kylie after the divorce?” Mikayla

hoarse, and her

furrowed brows tightened further as he countered,

life over this?”

the first aid

trying to

that moment, carrying the first

help Mikayla stand up, but

own, adjusted her clothes, and walked

wanted to chase after Mikayla to find out what had happened, but at that

Kylie let out a

was the one responsible for

before coming to a complete stop. “Shall we

her pale face, Kylie shook her

Another inch deeper, and it would have needed

helped Kylie stop the bleeding while asking, “Who was that person

forced a faint smile. “She

You’ve been bullied like this, and you’re still defending her. I think we

furrowed brows, Kylie said to the round–faced woman, “Aunt Agatha, please go back for now.

tell it wasn’t appropriate for her

someone to look after you tonight,

“What just happened? Why did Mikayla attack you?